Description
When I first joined MetaCartel, I had just ended a months-long run in ReallyBoringGuild. After the confusion that comes with grant ops at MolochDAO, I felt like I needed to tiptoe through MetaCartel as I learned the ropes. It may have seemed almost hypochondriac, but even with this caution I was still able to instigate disagreements and complications within MetaCartel. That messy experience is in the past, but the lessons learned from it are useful for future DAO inter and intra relations.
When I was getting podcast content together for a DAO or Never interview with Sky, I OHHhhh-ed, because he was describing best practices for getting proposals passed in a DAO that I had not thought of before. Had I known about what he described while I was doing grant ops for MolochDAO, I might have avoided some of the complications that occurred.
Let’s collect stories of wisdom and experience in a repository. Let’s share these stories as anecdotes for DAO best practices from MetaCartel, the community that’s actually deep in the messy complications of coordination.
Castle in the Sky: Would be great if this repository was part of MetaCartel’s GitHub and if it can receive pull requests, with additional anecdotes from the broader ecosystem.
Manifesto/Vision
Stories enhance communication within and between communities.
Stories encourage conversation about challenging topics.
Stories remind us that others have gone through the same challenges that we currently face.
Problem
Navigating the nuances of DAO coordination is challenging.
Solution
Collect and share lessons from DAO experiences, so mistakes aren’t repeated too often.
Product
Open source repository
Validation
Well, I helped conduct interviews and collect data for the MetaMoloch initiative in early 2022.
Progress
Repository of Anecdotes about DAO Best Practices [Coordination]
Differentiation
Often research on DAOs feels like it’s completed by people who are studying DAOs, not necessarily experiencing them. They may be participating in DAOs, but the perspective is from extracting findings. This research seems to also be missing the nuances of personal stories.
MetaCartel has nuanced stories from deep in the messiness of coordinating with decentralized teams, made up of autonomous individuals. Collecting these stories isn’t meant to replace peer reviewed research. It is instead a resource for community members and leaders to not only learn from our successes and mistakes, but to also feel less alone when dealing with the struggles of coordination.
Team
@BorrowLucid
Grant Request
1500 WXDAI for 15 anecdotes
Funds
Each anecdote requires the following (~1.5 hrs)
- scheduling and coordination (~5 min)
- interview to harvest stories (~30 min)
- removal of any identifying information from the transcript (~15 min)
- collaborative transcript editing with a robot (~30 min)
- final edits and publish (~10 min)
- at 100 WXDAI/anecdote, that works out to ~$66.6/hr
Help
- Advice is requested on
- how best to store the data, so it’s easy to use in the future. For example, would it be best as markdown on Github, so anyone can submit pull requests with their own anecdotes about DAO best practices? Or, would it be better in a certain data structure that allows for easier reference for future research or publication? Or, is there an easy way to keep it updated, while live on a website?
- what’s the best way to tag the data, so it’s not enormously tedious to search for topics?
- 30 minutes of your individual time is requested, so I can harvest stories from your DAO travels.